Background: The fourth most common cancer in the world, stomach cancer, is typically treated surgically. 5-year survival rate for patients with advanced gastric (AGC) ranges from 7 to 27%.

background: the aim of the study was to assess the effect of four repeated ejaculations on the same day at two-hour intervals on conventional and functional semen parameters. methods: three healthy men (32±3.6 years) donated the first semen samples after 3-4 days of sexual abstinence followed by three subsequent samples on the same day at two-hour interval each. semen samples were processed and...

We present a novel approach to assessing the attentiveness of professional forecasters to news about the macroeconomy. We …nd evidence that professional forecasters, taken as a group, do not always update their estimates of the current state of the economy to re‡ect the latest releases of revised estimates of key data. Key words: Professional forecasters, data revisions, inattention. JEL classi...

the acupuncture is a safe medical treatment method. regarding to an absence of adverse effects, this method is considered as the best interventions in smoke cession and relieving the threatening pains. churchill mentioned that most people watched some tv movies related to using of acupuncture in anesthetizing the surgical patients some people experienced acupuncture by themselves or relatives. ...

Suzanne Jarvis reports from the Fourth International Meeting on the Control of Neglected Zoonotic Diseases, hosted by the World Health Organization in Geneva in November. The meeting looked at progress that has been made in controlling these diseases and at what the next steps should be for further control.

Smart systems and the smart world concept are addressed in the framework of the fourth industrial revolution. New challenges in distributed autonomous robots and computing are considered. An illustration of a new kind of smart and reconfigurable distributed modular robot system is given. A prototype is also presented as well as the associated distributed algorithm.

Since the calcium channel blocker (CCB) has become one of the most prescribed agents for antihypertensive monotherapy in the world, this brief review will focus on the recent research and development of the dihydropyridine (DHP) CCB, addressing pharmacological mechanisms for the clinical efficacy of the third and fourth generations of the DHP CCBs, especially on their possible central mechanism...